Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-28
DAKOTA.

become hopelessly insane.
The bank Of Minot, with a capital of 500,
600, has been Incorporated.
w. j. Duncan, OF Bowdle, was arrested on
Thursday for horse stealing.
The Huron Electric Light company is con-
siderlng the adyisability Of putting Elk more
lights In different parts OF the city.
During Fridays storm at Faulkton a lum-
Der yard was blown away, and at Highmore
som small houses were overturned.
The population OF Faulkton has Increased
from 200 in Octobe-, 1886, to 700 In May, 1887,
and that without anything in ~tbe:way of a
boom.
DR.. HUFF, OF Huron, the gentleman Gov.
Church announces is to be president Of the
board OF health OF the territory, is a homeo-
pathic physician.
A $4,000 court house, 100000 college
building, a $1,000 creamery, a three.story
hotel-these are some Of the 1887 improve
ments for Reddeld.
Sanders Olson, the wife p~oissner Of High
more, committed suicide In his cell by choking
himself to death. The jury had just returned
a verdict Of guilty.
The probate judges OF the Waterfowl lanG
district will hold a convention at Waterfowl
on the eth OF June, to see the reason WHY
they cannot do the proving up as well as IT,,
clerks.
The report that pleuro pneumonia hai
broken out at Darlington is without fouL,a-
ton. Three ~glandered horses were killed in
that county by order of the veterinary
surgeon.
The report sent from Pierre that the Times,
Free Trade Democrat and Herald Of that ace
were 70 be consolidated and run as ov.
Church's special organ is vigorously denied
by all concerned.
T.. VI. Bloomfield, an Englishman who
travelled for a Sioux Falls shirt factory, IS
among the missing, and IL is thought he has
returned to England, leaving an estimablc
wife and innumerable creditors.
G.. IL. Prior, who pays over 1 ECO a year
in taxes on Woonsocket property, has hearc
the news that the town is to have no NOR,
saloons, and has written that he is glad Of II.
He thinks that it will increase the value OF
properly.
Mile. Rhea's box Office receipts were at
tached at Fargo on behalf OF O'Neil, the
former manager of the opera house, because
she cancelled her engagement a year ago.
Mile. Rhea gave bonds and will fight the case
In the courts.
The Huron fire department presented Mr..
and Mrs. Silver with an elegant plush rocker
a complete set of decorated china dishes and
a beautiful hanging lamp, IN token Of the
high esteem in which Mr.. Silver is held by
his brothers Of the department.
The scheme to haul freight up the Missouri
river to to Pierre, and thence by bull trains
across to Rapid City and other Black Hills
points, is looked on with considerable favor
by local %frelghters, who say that this method
will beat the railroads for cheap ~freights.
The total Indebtedness OF the city Of Grand
Forks is SS3 200; assessed valuation, 81, 409,-
644; none In the treasury, 81, 900. The
outgoing council leaves the city in a prosper.
Gus condition, financially, the assets, etc,
Independent Of cash on hand, being $3.50, 600.
Charles Griffin, Jesse Fitch aud John Sui
Ivan, the trio that escaped from the county
jail at Mitchell on the morning Of May 5, have
been recaptured and lodged behind tne bars
They were located at Wheeler, near the Fort
Randall military reservation, by the sheriff Of
Charles Mix county.
The Standard Uncle Toms Cabin company
gave its valedictory performance at Sioux
Falls last Saturday night, and a number Of
the actors were left in that city In rather
straitened circumstance financially. The
manager is said to have made considerable
money out Of the show.
A farmer living northwest of OrGwiv last
week placed a feather bed out doors 10 air
while cleaning house, and In thirty minutes
afterwards it was captured 10y a neighbor
three miles away, who had to mount a horse
to overtake 1t. The next time that man puts
a bed outside he is going to stake it down.
Thomas Britt, of Grand Forks, who it was
said had both legs cut of by being run over
by a switch engine at Minot, had his legs
broken but not taken of. He was cleaning
out the ash pan Of the engine, when it sud
denly started up with the above result. The
young man Is a son Of John Britt, master
blacksmith at the Manitoba roundbouse here,
and had been in the employ OF the company at
Minot two months.
Gesrge T.. Reed, for two years city treas
urer Of Bismarck, is missing. 1t is believed
he has gone to Canada. His accounts are
said to be 90, 0eo short. He secured his BOND
from the clerk in order, as he said, to make
out a new one for his successor, and took it
with him, thus relieving his bondsmen OF the
obligation to pay the deficiency. Reed has
hosts Of friends who believe he has not gone
of for the purpose OF defrauding the city.
Mrs. Reed told a friend he would never see
Reed again In that region.
r. M. Elliott, a prominent physician OF
Aberdeen, was before Justice Hunsberger at
Columbia on q warrant charging him with
m~anslaughter in the FIRST degree. Last April
Elliott made a professional visit to the house
OF Mrs. Louis Lorber In a case Of child birth.
The child was delivered IN a mutilated condi-
and died. At the coroner's inquest,
held May 6, the above facts were found, and
the case adjourned to May 20, Elliott giving
bonds for his appearance In 5000.
There ere 90, 600, 600 acres Of government